GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |